PEOPLE v. RAMOS (2024)

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles H. Solomon, J., on motions and at plea;  Curtis Farber, J., at sentencing), rendered August 7, 2019, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him to three years of probation, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence without granting a hearing (see generally People v. Mendoza, 82 N.Y.2d 415, 604 N.Y.S.2d 922, 624 N.E.2d 1017 [1993]).  The People provided defendant with detailed information about the undercover sale that formed the basis for his arrest.  Defendant's conclusory denial of his participation in the alleged sale did not contradict the felony complaint's factual allegations, and his denial was insufficient, in the context of the information available to defendant, to require a hearing (see People v. Jones, 95 N.Y.2d 721, 723 N.Y.S.2d 761, 746 N.E.2d 1053 [2001];  People v. McFaline, 167 A.D.3d 465, 466, 89 N.Y.S.3d 160 [1st Dept. 2018]).